Branding, Layout, look and feel

If you want to search or disable the refinements of the “Ask Me About” property from the user profile, look for Managed property “Responsibilities“. Or the crawled property “SPS-Responsibilities”. Displaying this property in the refinements turned out not to be that helpful. Disabling it is a breeze, if you know the correct (internal) name. Regards, […]

My SP Toolbox. A quick overview of the tools I regularly use while creating solutions for SharePoint. Boost productivity and limit debug sessions. SharePoint Manager The SharePoint Manager 2013 is a SharePoint object model explorer. It enables you to browse every site on the local farm and view every property. http://spm.codeplex.com/ CAMLDesigner The CAML designer […]

Introduction Update 2013-09-07: The SharePoint Server 2013 CU of August 2013 and KB 2817607 seem to (partly) address the issue described in this article. If you tried and tested the update it let me know! From the support site: When you export a design package from a SharePoint Server 2013 site, some out-of-box (OOB) fields are missing […]

Introduction Language packs only translate the default SharePoint functionality. Your own lists, content types, fields, etc.. are not translated. Since SharePoint 2010 there is an option in SharePoint to translate elements in the user interface and export them. This export can then be imported again on another server. In my case this is mainly between […]

The problem How do you add a custom control to your master page (or page layout) using the Design manager? In my first attempts I continuously got ‘Unknown server tag ‘uc1:FeedbackControl’ Quick introduction Using the new way of creating and deploying your branding with the Design Manager needs some getting used to. The idea is: You start […]

The content search web part is just brilliant. Not only does it let you aggregate, filter and find content and their metadata. The new way of styling with the new display templates is a huge relieve after all the xslt horror in the SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 versions. One word of caution: I learned the hard way […]

For some reason breadcrumbs are disabled in the default SharePoint master pages. Luckily it is very easy to add them. Add breadcrumb Simply add this snippet to your master page or page layout And when loading your page again you should see something similar like this: Navigate up (breadcrumb fly-out) If you are used to SP2010 […]

Introduction If you ever had to implement some kind of visual change in SharePoint, you know that, with previous SharePoint versions, this could be a challenge. Even SharePoint 2010 is spitting out HTML that makes website designers cry. I installed SharePoint 2013 Foundation Preview this week. And I decided to take a look at the […]

In this article I will explain how you can adjust the Content Query Web part so generates exactly the HTML you want. I’m also planning 2 follow-up postings where we will dive a deeper and convert the standard <table> HTML layouts to <UL> HTML layout. And finally explain how to deploy all this to your […]

Introduction This article explains how to manage the layout of your site pages (= wiki pages) with the standard SharePoint 2010 Foundation functionality . Default SharePoint pages are stored in a “Site Pages” library which is basically a wiki page library. This article assumes you know how to create SharePoint 2010 projects in Visual Studio […]